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In 1965, Gordon Moore published a short informal paper, Cramming more components onto integrated circuits. Based on not much more but these few data points and his knowledge of silicon chip development - he was head of R&D at Fairchild Semiconductors, the company that was to seed Silicon Valley - he said that for the next decade, component counts by area could double every year.
The majority of state and local election administrators have only rudimentary or non-standard technologies to protect themselves from phishing. Fewer than 3 out of 10 election administrators have basic controls to prevent phishing.
The report reveals a specialized economy emerging around email account takeover and takes an in-depth look at the threats organizations face and the types of defense strategies you need to have in place. Report highlights More than one-third of the hijacked accounts analyzed by researchers had attackers dwelling in the account for more than one week.
Hackers could be lurking in your email account for more than a week after hijacking it to harvest information before selling it off to other criminals, a new report from Barracuda Networks has warned. A study carried out by Barracuda and UC Berkeley found that just over a third of hacked corporate email accounts sustained attacks for more than a week, during which time attackers would monitor how the organisation did business so that they could launch subsequent phishing attacks.
The latest form of business email phishing attacks involve impersonating familiar senders, a GreatHorn report found. GreatHorn also acknowledged this uptick the report noted that this view isn't fully adequate in understanding how phishing email attacks are evolving, and how security teams are responding to those threats.
Email phishing attacks work by spoofing or referencing well-known topics that the attackers hope will arouse fear or concern or interest on the part of the recipients. To compile its "Q2 2020 Top-Clicked Phishing Report," KnowBe4 examined tens of thousands of email subject lines from simulated phishing tests as well as "In-the-wild" email messages that employees received and reported to their IT departments as suspicious.
Microsoft's desktop email client Outlook has stopped working worldwide for countless users, whether they are using it with an on-premises Exchange server or with the Office 365 cloud. As a workaround, users can utilize Outlook on the web or their mobile clients.
A newly discovered, sophisticated threat group that targets organizations without DMARC implemented and relies on business email compromise is heralding what researchers call "a new age" of business email compromise. On July 15 at 2 p.m. ET, join Valimail Global Technical Director Steve Whittle and Threatpost for a FREE webinar, "DMARC: 7 Common Business Email Mistakes." This technical "Best practices" session will cover constructing, configuring, and managing email authentication protocols to ensure your organization is protected.
Roughly five hours after an internal email went out Friday to Amazon employees telling them to delete the popular video app TikTok from their phones, the online retailing giant appeared to backtrack, calling the ban a mistake. U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said this week that the government was "Certainly looking" at banning the app, setting off confused and irritated posts as well as jokes by TikTok users.
Amazon today said an internal email banning its staff from using TikTok on smartphones connected to their corporate inboxes was sent in "Error." The admission - or climb down, depending on how skeptical you are - came after the memo was obtained and leaked by journalists. So what Amazon's trying to say now is that it was wrong to ban TikTok from mobile devices: its policy is that it's OK to use the software on phones used for work email.